Good Riddance to the War on Terror
December 31 marked the end of what came to be called the “war on terrorism.” Now is as good a time as any to reflect on the mistakes that were central to this “war.” Read More Here
Tag: Afghanistan
Pakistani Taliban Go To War While People March For Peace
Emboldened by victory and now protected by their Afghan brothers, the TTP have broken an “indefinite” cease-fire declared in June to reignite their war against the Pakistani state. Read More Here
How To Build Putin A Gilded Bridge Out Of Ukraine
The West and Ukraine can offer Moscow superficial gains as an incentive to withdraw while working to entrench the image of Russian failure and weaken Putin’s political position. Read More Here
Putin’s Afghanistan
For those who remember late Soviet history, there is a familiar analog to these events: the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. As with the war in Ukraine, the invasion of Afghanistan was driven by the fear that Moscow was losing a crucial piece of its sphere of influence. Read More Here
China’s Afghanistan Dilemma
For all their bluster, China’s leaders are deeply anxious about the emerging order in Afghanistan, which could threaten the region’s stability and enable jihadi terror to spill over into China’s restive western regions, which are home to large Muslim populations. Read More Here
Scathing Report Highlights Why US Failed In Afghanistan
While the world discusses the ramifications of the end of a two-decade of US presence in Afghanistan and the swift return of the Taliban, which quickly took control of the country and its capital even before the last American boots left the country, it becomes a must to read a scathing US government report that […]
The Real Lessons From 9/11: America Risks Swinging from Hubris to Muddle
The risk is that Mr Biden’s domestic bias could make his foreign policy less effective. America needs to find a new way to co-exist with China, with rivalry and co-operation in different areas. Read More Here
The Return Of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Throughout history, great powers have often competed by supporting proxy forces. The Cold War, for example, was hardly a “long peace” when one considers the numerous externally abetted, intrastate conflicts and shadow wars that took place. There is no reason to think that U.S. competition with China and Russia will be any different than earlier periods of […]
Biden The Realist
In ending the two-decades-long war, Biden rejected every “liberal internationalist” premise of the enterprise, including the notion that building a democratic Afghanistan and transforming the region served U.S. interests or advanced universal values. Read More Here
Korea Was The United States’ First Forever War
For all the talk of the forever war in the Middle East, the longest U.S. war is not Afghanistan but the Korean War, which is under an indefinite cease-fire 71 years after the war began in 1950. Read More Here
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